On Friday 02 February 2007, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 02 February 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I want to guarantee that foo-9999.ebuild in /usr/local/portage will > > be emerged in preference to an identically named and versioned > > ebuild in layman. How do I do that? > > > > If I can't guarantee this, I'd also be happy bumping my ebuilds to > > foo-99999.ebuild, but I'd rather do it with a config option if > > possible. > > This is controlled by the order in which they apear in > PORTDIR_OVERLAY. The last overlay that matches a package takes > precedence. Thanks for this, but Bo beat you to the correct answer by 6 minutes :-) I think I'll make a suggestion to the appropriate maintainer to have this documented in man 5 make.conf alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
